News Core Ultra 9 285K is faster in Linux than in Windows – flagship Arrow Lake chip is 6 to 8% faster on average in Linux

[Admin]

Linux might be the better operating system for Arrow Lake CPUs, as the Core Ultra 9 285K runs faster in the latest version of Ubuntu than it does Windows 11 24H2.

Core Ultra 9 285K is faster in Linux than in Windows – flagship Arrow Lake chip is 6 to 8% faster on average in Linux : Read more

 

[nightbird321]

Wonder if it is because of the "stability fixes" Windows did for Intel.

 

[tamalero]

6% in one of the most bloated distros? I suppose it would be even faster on something tunned like Nobara or CatchyOS?

 

[dCasualGamer]

Wearing a conspiracy hat 😈 .. maybe MSFT intentionally did that to screw x86 as part of its push for ARM-Windows.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Between that and the few wins that the 285K on Windows scored, performance on Ubuntu overall was only 6 to 8% faster, depending on the OS and kernel configuration.

To put that into perspective, if Intel's incoming performance fix increases performance across the board in Windows 11 by 6-8%, that means it trumps the Ryzen 9 9950X on average in non gaming tasks and gives 7950X3D like performance in games at 1920x1080 on average, going by TH's numbers. I'd say that's rather significant.

 

[svan71]

6% in one of the most bloated distros? I suppose it would be even faster on something tunned like Nobara or CatchyOS?

I'm assuming the kernel has more to do with it than the distro.

 

[AkroZ]

Windows rarely beats Linux in applications performances and It's remains true for games. It's just that windows runs Windows games generally faster than Linux because it use dxvk to translate DirectX calls to Vulkan and the releases of graphic drivers can lag behind on Linux.
The issue since Windows 10 is the services like telemetry, security, user experience, ... : Every one of those services spy on the running applications wanting to known what is done in its own way.